Hackettstown Film Festival

10/23/2025

We are proud to announce Show Times for this year’s Fall 2025 winners.
Friday, October 31, 2025
Doors open 7:30 PM $10/person General Admission. No one under 18 without a Guardian.
All proceeds benefit the Hackettstown Center for the Arts, a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Entity.

7:45 pm Best Ultra-Short “Saturday Morning Coffee” Dir. Erick Freitas (4:21)
7:55 pm Best Short Under 15 Minutes “The Silver Cord” Dir. Travis Burgess (12:00)
8:15 pm Best Film Under 30 Minutes “SCRAG” Dir. Carlos J Benitez (29:00)
8:50 pm Honorable Mention “myself & i.” Dirs. M.K. Scanlon and Alisha Yi (17:52)

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10/20/2025

2025 Fall HFF Winners
We are proud to announce this year’s Fall 2025 winners.

Best Film Under 30 Minutes
“SCRAG” Dir. Carlos J Benitez
Honorable Mention
“myself & i.” Dirs. M.K. Scanlon and Alisha Yi

Best Short Under 15 Minutes
“The Silver Cord” Dir. Travis Burgess

|Best Ultra-Short
“Saturday Morning Coffee” Dir. Erick Freitas

Winning movies will be screened on Friday, October 31 starting at 7:30 pm. Passes for the Festival are $10 for any movie/any time. Patrons under13 not recommended. General Admission.

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04/24/2025

$10 online or at the door gets you a pass for any and all winning films showcased this Friday at 7:30 pm at the Hackettstown Center for the Arts

Friday, April 25, 2025 Schedule
7:30 Welcome
7:40 Popcorn (Best Student)
7:55 The Truth Between Us (Best Comedy)
8:05 Dystopia (Best Action) subtitles
8:25 Perpetrator (Best Foreign) subtitles
8:45 Article 92 (Best Feature) 2:10:00 runtime

General Admission. Limited Seating.

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04/22/2025

2025 Spring HFF Winners
We are proud to announce this year’s 2025 winners.

Best Feature
“Article 92” Dir. Joe Hawk
Honorable Mention
“The Golden Safe” Dir. Joseph Marchione

Best Foreign
“Perpetrator” Dir. Li-Jie (China)
Honorable Mention
“There she Goes” Dir. Rogerio Troiani (Brazil)

Best Action
“DYSTOPIA” Dir. Jonathan Taverne
Honorable Mention
“The Days of Knight: Chapter 1” Dir. John P. Martinez

Best Documentary
“Gardener of the Galaxy” Dir. Nick Natalicchio
Honorable Mention
“8 Minutes” Dir. Charles Irvin

Best Comedy
“The Truth Between Us” Dir. Larry Rosen
Honorable Mention
“Living with Grandma” Dir. Finise Avery

Best Student
“Popcorn” Dir. Fangjian Li
Honorable Mention
“The Duet” Dir. Gica Pucca

Stay tune for Shows Times for this Friday, April 25th Film Festival starting at 7:30 pm.

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03/14/2025

Send in your films! Patron tix now on sale!

10/25/2024

Getting ready for tonight's Film Festival at Hackettstown Center for the Arts at 7:30 pm. Only $10 at the door.

10/22/2024

FILM SHOW TIMES FOR THIS FRIDAY
$10 General Admission gets you a Pass for the entire evening!

7:30 pm Welcome!
7:45 pm Special Student Screening “Watch Your Back” Dir. Bryan Cianci
7: 50 pm “Frank”
8:00 pm “One Over Another”
8:15 pm “Visiting” Dir. Piero Cannata
8:30 pm “Black Spine” Dir. Brooks Wieszczek
9:00 pm “Lizzie” Dir. Jack Foley
9:20 pm Surprise Feature!

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10/19/2024

2024 Hackettstown Film Festival
We are proud to announce this year’s 2024 winners.
All films will be screened on Friday, October 25 from 7:00 pm on.
Shows times pending.

Best Film
“Lizzie” Dir. Jack Foley

Best Suspense Film
“Black Spine” Dir. Brooks Wieszczek

Honorable Mention (Concept)
“One Over Another” Dir. Brooks Wieszczek

Honorable Mention (Foreign Film)
“Visiting” Dir. Piero Cannata

Best Ultra-Short Film
“Frank” Dir. Kurt Fleischer

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10/14/2024

The deadline for submissions has been reached. Over 6 hours of films have been submitted. The judges begin their hard work of reviewing. Stay tuned for the winners!

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07/13/2024

The Hackettstown Center for the Arts is excited to announce that we are accepting film submissions for our upcoming October 25, 2024 Horror Film Festival! This year we're moving the event to a spooky Friday evening and will host a costume contest!

The Hackettstown Film Festival is a small, intimate, yet prestigious festival is under the artistic direction of producer, director, writer and entertainment entrepreneur, Chris Lance. Bringing quality, entertaining cinema to the masses is the mission of this competition. Hosted by the Hackettstown....

10/27/2023

We're excited to have picked the winners for our film festival! Here are tomorrow's Show Times:
3:00 Festival Introduction
3:05 “Short Route” Ultra-Short Winner
3:15 “The Stray” Honorable Mention
3:30 “Amphibia” Short Winner
3:45 “Fraudulent Conversion” Honorable Mention
5:45 “Afterwards” Festival Winner
7:30 Closing Comments

The Hackettstown Film Festival is a small, intimate, yet prestigious festival is under the artistic direction of producer, director, writer and entertainment entrepreneur, Chris Lance. Bringing quality, entertaining cinema to the masses is the mission of this competition. Hosted by the Hackettstown....

10/20/2023

Today is the last day of judging! We've had many, many submissions! The results will be posted by Monday. Don't forget to order your Festival PASS online for Saturday, October 28th! Limited seating.